A choice of emblemes, and other devises For the moste part gathered out of sundrie writers, Englished and Moralized. And divers newly devised, by Geffrey Whitney. A worke adorned with varietie of matter, both pleasant and profitable: Wherein those that please, maye finde to fit their fancies: Bicause herein, by the office of the eie, and the eare, the minde maye reape dooble delighte throughe holsome preceptes, shadowed with pleasant deuises: both fit for the vertuous, to their incoraging: and for the wicked, for their admonishing and amendment |
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Murus æneus, sana conscientia.
To Miles Hobart Esquier.
Bothe freshe, and greene, the Laurell standeth sounde,
Thoughe lightninges flasshe, and thunderboltes do flie:
Where, other trees are blasted to the grounde,
Yet, not one leafe of it, is withered drie:
Euen so, the man that hathe a conscience cleare,
When wicked men, doe quake at euerie blaste,
Doth constant stande, and dothe no perrilles feare,
When tempestes rage, doe make the worlde agaste:
Suche men are like vnto the Laurell tree,
The others, like the blasted boughes that die.
Integer vitæ, scelerisque purus
Non eget Maurî iaculis nec arcu,
Nec venenatis grauida sagittis,
Fusce pharetra.
Non eget Maurî iaculis nec arcu,
Nec venenatis grauida sagittis,
Fusce pharetra.
Siue per Syrtes iter astuosas
Siue facturus per inhospitalem
Caucasum, vel qua loca fabulosus
Lambit Hydaspes.
Siue facturus per inhospitalem
Caucasum, vel qua loca fabulosus
Lambit Hydaspes.
Hor. 1. Carm. 22.
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